[lbo-talk] fight within Respect

[Lenin's Tomb]

On 10/21/07, Russell Grinker <grinker at mweb.co.za> wrote:
>
> One would surely need to ask about the political basis on which such gains
> were made? Word has it that the Respect coalition was predicated on a fairly
> radical shift to the right by the SWP and an adaptation to the politics of
> coalition partner the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB)

Whose word has this?  1) The MAB is not a coalition partner in Respect; 2)
None of the policies in Respect's founding statement or in the manifesto or
in the extensive policy drafts or in conference resolutions reflect those of
the MAB.

- a group who see homosexuality as a "sexual perversion".

Catholics see it that way too, but I wouldn't rule them out of a socialist
coalition, provided they accept that the coalition is committed to equal
rights for all sexualities.  Full and equal rights for LGBT is the position
of Respect formally, explicitly and substantively.  This isn't difficult
information to come upon, so in future your "word has it" rumour-mongering
would benefit from a modicum of Google-based research.